Leslie

I'm generally pretty lucky, and have managed to get almost all of the units I've really wanted without spending any money. There are some notable exceptions of course, especially with specific banners where I couldn't summon shit (Legendary Marth), but I'm pretty happy with my record so far.

I personally always try to wait until level 20, often with the exception of healers and other units that are difficult to level, although even those I try to get as far along as possible. If the game allows you to grind, though, then I have no exceptions. I haven't really tried the alternatives of promoting ASAP or when necessary, so I'm not sure that the way I've been doing it is necessarily optimal from a strategic perspective, but it's honestly more of a psychological thing for me at this point.

Thanks for the response, @Shoblongoo. I’ll reply later when I have more time. I’d like to point out that I’ve been having the same problem with editing my post, even only seconds after posting it. Thought it was just me.

This list was created by a novelist rather than a political scientist, and is therefore lacking in credibility in its description of fascism, which is a specific term with meaning rather than simply a synonym for authoritarianism, which is how it seems to be treated here; most of the points listed are hardly exclusive to fascist societies. Even if one, for some reason, accepts the list as accurate, the criteria are so broad that you can stretch them to encompass many societies if you truly want to, and it's trivial to provide isolated anecdotes and sweeping generalizations to support each criterion in order prove a political point. Even with the ones that can be argued to describe the U.S., they apply so loosely or only in certain domains to the point that, even if technically or semantically accurate, they become so broad and widely applicable as to render them meaningless. #6, for example, is particularly absurd: far from the media being controlled by the administration, it's almost universally and openly hostile to it, certain exceptions notwithstanding; it requires an extraordinary amount of exaggeration, mental gymnastics, and selective use of evidence to conclude that this is an accurate descriptor of the modern United States, especially in comparison to the violent legal suppression of any non-complementary media in actual fascist regimes. Likewise with #9: the existence of things such as the electoral college and gerrymandering, while harmful to democracy, are far from making elections fraudulent or a sham: by comparison, the brownshirts of Nazi Germany physically intimidated and violently suppressed the opposition, the only candidates allowed to run in parliamentary elections (for a completely powerless parliament) were members of the Nazi Party (with turnout and approval always over 99%), and Fascist Italy didn't even have elections. The fundamental problem with applying these points to the U.S. in the way you have (beyond the fact that the list itself is highly questionable and should probably be avoided entirely) is that, while perhaps seeming superficially plausible, it neglects all sense of scale and balance. Even if the U.S. could technically or semantically be characterized as "fascist" using this criteria, it would be so different from other actual fascist regimes and the definition of fascist so stretched and loosened that it would become completely meaningless and lose any value as a political descriptor. I think it's possible to be legitimately and strongly opposed to the current administration and its actions without feeling the need to use such unhelpful and partisan hyperbole. P.S. Most of the points described in the list that supposedly apply to the U.S. actually predate Trump. In fact, pretty much all of them have historically been worse at some point. If I loosely applied this list in the same way, I could pretty easily make a case of the U.S. being "fascist" at several previous points in its history, including before the invention of fascism. In which case fascism starts to sound increasingly less bad, and starts to lose power and meaning. And this is where it moves from merely being silly to causing actual harm: the word fascism, like genocide and Nazi, shouldn't be thrown around so lightly. Correlation isn't the same as causation: because x country happens to do something that y country likes, it doesn't follow that x country is doing it because y country likes it. Moreover, this ignores counterpoints. For example: Trump armed Ukraine in their fight against Russian-supported rebels, and also bombed Russia's key Middle Eastern ally, Syria, twice, both of which Obama refused to do. I'm hardly claiming "no collusion" (I simply don't know due to lack of evidence), but to claim that Trump has committed treason such that he should be punished by death certainly seems premature, to say the least.